More on the LeClair effect The following doctoral thesis characterizes Protonated Water Clusters. These clusters are formed around positive ions.
http://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/2077/28349/1/gupea_2077_28349_1.pdf Thermal properties of clusters and molecules - Experiments on evaporation, thermionic emission, and radiative cooling ERIKA SUNDÉN Department of Physics University of Gothenburg Consistent with Rydberg matter, these clusters demonstrate magic numbers. These magic numbers describe clusters with a specific number of molecules that in an otherwise smooth intensity mass distribution show up in higher abundance than their neighbors. For protonated water clusters the most apparent magic numbers show up at cluster sizes of N = 21, 28 and 55 molecules. The positive charge accumulated by these water based Rydberg clusters comes from thermionic emissions of electrons over time. I reference this paper to show the theoretical foundation of the water clusters found by LeClair in his experiments. LeClair was not seeing things that cannot exist but were in fact real stuff that has been seen before; This weird stuff is really water clusters formed as Rydberg matter, having a high positive charge and are produced by condensation of water molecules around positive oxygen ions in plasma. Identically to what happens in gas based dusty plasma reactors as typified by those created by Rossi and DGT, I offer this mechanism of coulomb barrier masking through positive electrostatic charge concentration as an alternative explanation for the cold fusion reactions seen in water based cold fusion F&P reactors including the Brillouin energy reactor.
